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Christians Do Not Have a Superior Foundation for Morality!
What can we make of this? It's difficult to convince them otherwise, and I've tried here, and I've tried there. At the risk of beating my head against the wall, let me try one more time.
Statistics show that atheists make up the lowest number of people in prison per percentage of the population. Statistics also show that atheists have the lowest divorce rate per percentage of the population, especially when compared to conservative Christians. Moreover, it cannot be shown that Christians are more charitable than atheists when we look closely at the data.
Ddisregarding this data Christians think they live better lives because they alone have the Holy Spirit living in them. If this claim were true we should expect then to live better lives. But I believe Christians are deluded about this, since the evidence doesn't show their claim to be true. It's no different than the Christians who visit us here at DC who cannot bring themselves to believe we are former Christians. What gives? They reject ordinary evidence and personal testimonies to the contrary even though they turn around and accept extraordinary ancient personal testimonies of miracles in the Bible. They need to come to grips with the fact that these ancient Biblical testimonies are reported through the poor medium of history, which must cross over Lessing's broad ugly ditch.
Christians always have an out. They claim that the above statistics do not represent true Christians. But when I ask them who the true Christians are, they are all divided into denominational groups which are intellectually supported by scholars who claim their particular group represents true Christianity. If you look at the above link on divorce rates it's all broken down into denominations. Which one represents yours? None of them are significantly better than atheists with regard to divorce rates.
Conservative Christians will claim that it's not denominational standing but whether or not someone believes the Bible. But I still find people who believe the Bible is inerrant who disagree with each other. Come on now!? Even Jehovah's Witnesses claim the Bible is inerrant.
The truth is that it was Bible believing Christians who defended slavery in the South! This is a historical fact! The issue of slavery in the South was clearly the easiest moral question for the Christian God to condemn, if he exists and if he truly is the author of the Bible!
Furthermore, if Christians really believed the Bible they wouldn't let women speak in their churches (I Cor, 14:34), for the man would be the domineering patriarchal head of the house in which a wife is to "obey" her husband just like Sarah obeyed Abraham (I Peter 3: 6), even to the point of lying to save his life by having sex with another man (Genesis 12: 10-16) and by letting him sleep with another woman so he could have a child (Genesis 16). [I am old enough to remember when women had to say the words "to love and to obey" at their weddings!]
Christians have just learned to interpret these kinds of things differently down through the ages, that's all. According to Sam Harris they cherry-pick their morals from the Bible, and I think that's true. They claim they wouldn't do what previous generations of Christians did. Take for instance the great Angelic Doctor, Thomas Aquinas, who taught that heretics should be killed because they are a leavening influence in society. So Christians did that in the Spanish Inquisition and witch trials. Today's Christians think that past Christians got it wrong. Christians today claim they wouldn't have done that. But this is what I call chronological snobbery. We are all children of our times, as Voltaire said…all of us. And our morals have all developed together over time with the advancement of a better understanding of who we are as human beings in a society.
Christians will retreat to the claim that the whole reason atheists and skeptics are not mass murderers is because they don't live consistently with their beliefs. Christians will claim that the morality of atheists is a borrowed one from the Christian society they were all raised in that taught them what is right and what is wrong. But this is the most ridiculous claim of all.
Michael Shermer asks the Christian one simple question: "What would you do if there were no God? Would you commit robbery, rape, and murder, or would you continue being a good and moral person? Either way the question is a debate stopper. If the answer is that you would soon turn to robbery, rape, or murder, then this is a moral indictment of your character, indicating you are not to be trusted because if, for any reason, you were to turn away from your belief in God, your true immoral nature would emerge…If the answer is that you would continue being good and moral, then apparently you can be good without God. QED." [Michael Shermer, The Science of Good and Evil, pp. 154-155].
Let me say that anyone who tries to show that no society can be a good society without Christianity needs a history lesson. Such a person needs to study some of the great societies of the past, like Greece during the golden ages, or the Roman Empire, or several of the dynasties in ancient China, or the Islamic Empire under Muhammad, or the historic Japanese culture. None of these societies were Christian ones, but they were great societies by all standards of history. It won't prove anything to argue that there was corruption in every one of these societies to some degree, for this is true of any ancient or modern society, even Biblical Judaism and Christian America.
If Christians want to maintain that a Christian society is a better society, then just let them volunteer to go back in time to medieval Christianity and see if they like it. Probably all Christians today would be branded as heretics and persecuted or burned to death. And if today's Christians will say that medieval Christianity doesn't represent true Christianity, which Christian society does truly represent true Christianity? Even in the first few years of the early church there was corruption. There was sin in the camp (Acts 5); grumbling about food (Acts 6); and a major dispute that threatened to split the church (Acts 10-11, 15; Galatians 2). Then there were the constant disputes among these Christians over a very wide assortment of issues (I & II Corinthians). I could go on and talk of Calvin's Geneva, the Crusades, or any period in the history of America too, including black slavery, the Salem witchcraft trials, Manifest Destiny, and our treatment of women and minorities, to mention just a few.
Christian inclusivist scholar, Charles Kimball, argues that certain tendencies within religions cause evil. "Religious structures and doctrines can be used almost like weapons." (p. 32). Religion becomes evil, according to Kimball, whenever religion: 1) has absolute truth claims; 2) demands blind obedience; 3) tries to establish the ideal society; 4) utilizes the end justifies any means when defending their group identity; or 5) when they see themselves in a holy war. He says, "A strong case can be made that the history of Christianity contains considerably more violence and destruction than that of most other major religions." (p. 27) [When Religion Becomes Evil (Harper, 2002)].
I just don't see where a Christian society is a better one. And even if Christianity was the main motivator in starting most all early American universities, most all of our hospitals and many food kitchens, and the like, these things still would have been started anyway, if for no reason other than necessity. It just so happened to be that Christianity is the dominant religion in America for a couple of centuries, that's all. Besides, these things were probably not started by Christian churches out of altruism, or any desire for a better society, but as a way for those churches to convert people. After all, who are most vulnerable to the Christian message? They are the sick (hospitals), the poor (food kitchens) and young people leaving home for the first time to enter universities, which were mostly started to train preachers.
Christians will retort that atheists have their Lenin's and Stalin's. Yes that's correct. But what point does that prove? It doesn't prove anything to me. Why? Because I don't believe it was their atheism which caused them to kill millions of people. Most dictators who fear for their lives will kill people in order to make their subjects fearful of them. Besides, there are power hungry people and killers out there no matter what a person believes. The history of the church proves this.
The real question is whether Christians have a superior foundation for morality and I've just briefly shown they don't. I mean, really now, what good does it do for Christians to claim they have a foundation for morality when they cannot tell us how we should behave and they cannot live better lives than the rest of us? What good does it mean to claim they have a superior foundation for morality when they don't actually follow the Bible as was originally intended by the writers of the Bible? It means nothing at all. Such a claim as theirs is completely empty.
Christians will finally retort that atheists cannot say anything is evil. They will claim that whatever happens is part of the evolutionary process of things where the fittest survive, and as such skeptics have no right to denounce any evil behavior. But this is a separate question from the one I've just dealt with. It's a red herring from this particular discussion. What does this have to do with whether Christians have a superior foundation for morality? If they don't have a superior morality, then they don't. And until they accept this fact we cannot go forward to discuss the next question about the nature of good and evil in our society and how we actually determine good and evil. I've already argued that today's Christians don't get their morality from the Bible. That's my major point here. Do they or don't they? That is the question. And the answer is that they do not. They gain their moral notions just like the rest of us do, except that they are hamstrung by having to fit that morality inside the pages of the Bible, and they have an ill-founded confidence in what they think is moral that can lead them to do great harm to others in the name of their God.
But if the answer is that Christians don't get their morality from the Bible and that their moral foundations are not superior ones, then the very next question is to understand where we actually get our moral notions from, and at that point I'd just recommend to them Michael Shermer's book. The short answer to this specific question is that since we are part of nature we have a right to say what kind of society we want live in, and it's a better society when people get along and treat one another with dignity and respect in a democratic form of government where eveyone has the right to speak their mind and to work toward goals that produce a better social environment for our familes and for our future children. It's better for us. It's better for our children. It's better for our nation. It's better financially. It's better socially. It's better for people as a whole. This is obvious! What other reasons are needed?

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Amy Poehler is one of the most beloved comedy stars on TV today. But her brother, Greg Poehler, is about to give her a run for her money.
Thanks to her tenure on Saturday Night Live, her starring role on Parks and Recreation and her multiple gigs hosting the Golden Globes with Tina Fey, it's pretty safe to say that Amy Poehler is one of the most beloved comedy stars on TV today. But her brother, Greg Poehler, is about to give her a run for her money.
In the new comedy Welcome to Sweden, premiering July 10 at 9/8c on NBC, Greg stars as a celebrity accountant named Bruce who drops everything to follow the love of his life to Sweden.
"People oftentimes say I would give up everything for this person, but what happens when you do?" Greg told reporters Tuesday at NBC's Summer Press Day. "This show picks up Day 1 after Bruce giving up his past life."
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The story is based on Greg's own decision years earlier to move from New York to Sweden for his girlfriend, who is now his wife. However, it was only once Greg decided to leave his job as a lawyer and pursue comedy that the idea for the show came about. "I started doing stand-up a little over two years ago in Sweden, which really was the catalyst for this major career change," he said. " It's always something I thought I could do or knew I could do but I thought it was too late. ... I thought I just missed that window of opportunity."
Worried, but not deterred, Greg sat in his attic in Stockholm, Googled how to write a screenplay and wrote the entire first episode of the show. He then sent the script to his famous sister "so she could just check the font and the spacing," he said. Instead, she told him she wanted produce it. "We've had several family members pitch ideas to her over the years unsuccessfully," Greg recalled. "When she came onboard, it was really a stamp of approval early on."
Led by Greg, who is the show's star, showrunner and head writer, the show is shot largely in Sweden and features an almost entirely Swedish cast. Because of that, as well as the fact that the show also airs (and has already been renewed for a second season) in Sweden, the jokes won't be directed at one culture or another. "I try to find universality in humor," Greg said. "We try to find those smaller things in terms of the cultural differences instead of exploiting extreme stereotypes."
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If anything, Amy, who also serves as an executive producer, joked that "American actors come off really bad in this series." That's because in the show Greg's character Bruce plays a celebrity accountant whose egotistical clients include Amy, her Parks and Rec co-star Aubrey Plaza, Kiss frontman Gene Simmons and Will Ferrell. Greg also busts out some impressive Swedish thanks in no small part to his wife, who is Swedish. "He learned it for love," Amy said with a laugh.
It's this kind of love that Bruce's character feels for his girlfriend, Emma (Josephine Bornebusch) and that both Greg and Amy said will drive the series. "The show is really two things: A fish out of water story for my character who has moved to Sweden rather impulsively," Greg said, "and it's also a love story about these two characters."
Added Amy: "It's about love taking you somewhere else and you not only having to adjust to new a relationship but to a new country."
Welcome to Sweden premieres Thursday, July 10 at 9/8c on NBC.


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Buy a phone, whether directly from a manufacturer or from a mobile operator, and chances are it will come with a phone charger. You'll probably plug it in and chuck the old one in a drawer somewhere, "just in case." Once upon a time, when phones were all equipped with their own proprietary chargers, each with an infuriatingly different connector, that would have made sense, too.
But these days, it doesn't. Thanks to European mandates, virtually every phone on the market uses a micro-USB connector and chargers are now interchangeable. Even the iPhone, which doesn't use micro-USB on the handset, can use these standard chargers with a suitable adaptor. As a result, there's no point sticking the old charger in a drawer and plugging in the new one. In fact, there's no point in getting a new charger at all. The old one is just fine.
Since last September, British phone operator O2 has been running an experiment with the HTC One X+ to see if customers really want or need chargers with their phones. The telco shipped the One X+ with a USB cable—but without a charger to connect it to. Anyone wanting a new charger to go with their new phone would have to buy it separately.
The result? 82 percent of customers went without—fewer than one in five buyers of the HTC One X opted to spend the extra for a charger. This surprised even O2, as it expected only 70 percent of customers to do so.
The phone operator is now imploring its British competitors to "take chargers out of the box" and stop bundling free chargers that most people never need. If every UK carrier did the same and if the 82 percent rate were maintained, then some 24 million fewer chargers would be distributed in the UK each year. The company claims that there are 100 million unused chargers as a result of years of this spurious bundling, and because Olympic sized swimming pools are the standard volume metric in all press releases, they say that this is the same as four swimming pools worth of landfill.
The company says that ending the tyranny of unwanted free chargers will go some way toward saving the environment. That it also saves the company money (it's no longer paying for the in-box charger, and can in fact charge customers for buying the separate charger, though it claimed to only charge cost price during its trial) no doubt never entered into its thinking at all.
Of course, if you really want to help the environment, you'd forgo not just the charger, but the whole phone. Stick with the phone you own and you save all the energy and resources that would go into building a new handset and create no more waste for landfill.


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I was very sorry to miss the Implicit Racial Bias Across the Law Book Launch Conference yesterday. It's rare for such a great set of law and mind sciences speakers to assemble in one spot and the topic continues to be of great importance for all those committed to ironing out injustice in our legal system. But stuck in Philly, I did manage to "participate" vicariously . . . or, perhaps, more accurately: while doing some background research for some experiments that I am running with Penn's Geoff Goodwin, I came across an article that I had overlooked a few years back that is of certain interest to all those who study law and race.
The article, Not Yet Human: Implicit Knowledge, Historical Dehumanization, and Contemporary Consequences, offers a fascinating investigation of the mental association between Blacks and apes and its devastating consequences. As the authors (Phillip Atiba Goff, Jennifer L. Eberhardt, Melissa J. Williams, and Matthew Christian Jackson) explain,
Historical representations explicitly depicting Blacks as apelike have largely disappeared in the United States, yet a mental association between Blacks and apes remains. Here, the authors demonstrate that U.S. citizens implicitly associate Blacks and apes. In a series of laboratory studies, the authors reveal how this association influences study participants' basic cognitive processes and significantly alters their judgments in criminal justice contexts. Specifically, this Black–ape association alters visual perception and attention, and it increases endorsement of violence against Black suspects. In an archival study of actual criminal cases, the authors show that news articles written about Blacks who are convicted of capital crimes are more likely to contain ape-relevant language than news articles written about White convicts. Moreover, those who are implicitly portrayed as more apelike in these articles are more likely to be executed by the state than those who are not. The authors argue that examining the subtle persistence of specific historical representations such as these may not only enhance contemporary research on dehumanization, stereotyping, and implicit processes but also highlight common forms of discrimination that previously have gone unrecognized.
Check out the whole article here.
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Opie and Anthony bring their tour to Mohegan Sun
For more than 10 years, Gregg "Opie" Hughes and Anthony Cumia have been in the middle of the fight concerning indecency.
As hosts of "The Opie and Anthony Show," the two have earned a reputation for entertaining and offending listeners with their edgy content.
Now, Hughes and Cumia are taking their show on the road with the second annual Traveling Virus Tour. The tour will be making a stop Saturday night at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn.
The show will feature many of the comedians who appear regularly on the radio show, providing fans with a marathon of stand-up comedy.
"We kind of wanted to do a polished event finally," Hughes said in a phone interview. He and Cumia hosted a similar tour last year, and it was so successful they were able to book twice as many shows this year.
Longtime fans now have the chance to see many of the comedians they have heard through the years.
"If we're going to put our name on the tour, we want comedians who have worked with the show," Hughes said. "We look for guys that can go with the flow in the studio."
Thus, comedians who visit the show must be willing to toe the line of decency standards, and sometimes even cross it.
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Hughes and Cumia have had a few clashes with station executives, community groups and even the Federal Communications Commission during the last decade. Their show started in Boston in the mid-1990s, when Cumia was a frequent guest on Hughes' radio show on WBAB (102.3 FM). The two soon formed a show, but eventually moved to WAAF (107.3 FM), also in Boston, for a better time slot.
While at the station, the duo had a "100 Grand" giveaway, where a surprised listener received a candy bar instead of $100,000. They also reported as an April Fools joke in 1998 the death of Boston Mayor Thomas Menino. WAAF fired Hughes and Cumia later that month in response to that incident.
But Hughes and Cumia were back on the air in less than two months, this time at WNEW (102.7 FM) in New York. They were fired four years later after a contest in which a couple had sex in a church to win concert tickets.
They returned to the airwaves again in October 2004, when they brought their show to XM Satellite Radio. In 2006, they began a simulcast of the show on terrestrial radio.
Along the way, many comedians - including Stephen Lynch, Jim Norton and Bob Saget - have made regular appearances on the show. They will be among the nine comedians performing Saturday.
"Opie and Anthony's show includes a roster of very funny comics - several of whom are regulars at Mohegan Sun's Late Night Comedy series in The Cabaret Theater," said Laurie DiOrio, director of music and variety at Mohegan Sun. "We're proud and pleased that they've been included in this national tour, and audiences should keep in mind that their offbeat humor is intended for adult audiences."
A tour de force
"Opie and Anthony have been instrumental in creating a tremendous fan base for the comedians on their show and comedy in general," said Matt Frost, talent agent at the Paradigm agency and co-booker for the Cabaret Theater at Mohegan Sun. "It's a great outlet for these comics to expand their fan base to a nationwide audience."
The shows on the Traveling Virus Tour can easily last longer than three hours because of all the comedians involved. And the fans have helped turn the comedy event into an experience few other comedy tours can rival.
"It's more like a rock show than a comedy show," Cumia said.
Fans even get to shows early to tailgate, and the tour includes additional festivities because most shows are at outdoor venues. But Mohegan Sun cannot host many of the extra attractions, so Hughes and Cumia will broadcast live Friday morning from the Wolf Den.
What: Opie and Anthony present the Traveling Virus Tour.
Comics featured: Bob Saget, Rich Vos, Jim Norton, Stephen Lynch, Patrice O'Neal, Bob Kelly, Frank Caliendo, Louis C.K., Otto and George.
When: 7 p.m. Saturday.
Where: Mohegan Sun Arena, 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd., Uncasville.
Cost: Tickets are $45 and $65.
Warning: Show contains adult content.
"The Opie and Anthony Show" will be broadcast live from the Wolf Den at Mohegan Sun from 6 a.m. to 11 a.m. Friday.
For more information, visit www.mohegansun.com
Real names: Gregg Hughes and Anthony Cumia.
Ages: Hughes is 44, Cumia is 46.
Career highlights: Began "Opie and Anthony" in March 1995; fired in 1998 after false report of Boston Mayor Thomas Menino's death; signed syndication deal in 2001 to be heard in 22 metropolitan areas nationwide; produced show for XM Satellite Radio in October 2004.
Michael Savino writes for the Norwich (Conn.) Bulletin.


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Proposed 'The Rocks of Milton-Freewater' AVA focuses on terroir
For years, winemakers and wine lovers alike have discussed the distinctiveness of the wines coming from the section of the Walla Walla Valley commonly referred to as 'The Rocks.' If Walla Wallans Steve Robertson and Kevin Pogue have their say, the area will soon become its own appellation – one that is almost entirely based on soil type.
"I would be very surprised if there was a more terroir-driven AVA in the country," says geologist Kevin Pogue, who recently submitted an appellation application to the TTB.
If approved, the area – which would be a sub-appellation of the Walla Walla Valley and wholly located on the Oregon side of the border - will be called 'The Rocks of Milton-Freewater' after the small town located in the area. Made famous by vigneron Christophe Baron of Cayuse Vineyards who first planted in the area in the late 1990s, 'The Rocks' is currently a hotbed of activity with 250 acres under vine and more plantings going in each year.
'The Rocks' soil types are distinct from the rest of the Columbia Valley. Whereas most of the Columbia Valley's growing regions are defined by their relationship to the Missoula Floods - a series of large, powerful floods that swept through the area tens of thousands of years ago – 'The Rocks' region is not.
"The primary material from which the soil is derived is not flood material," says Pogue, a Ph.D. geologist who teaches at Whitman College and also consults for wineries and private parties through his company, VinTerra Consulting.
"It's alluvial material washed down the mountains by the Walla Walla River. That makes it very different from most Columbia Basin vineyards where the vines are rooted in wind-deposited silt derived from Missoula flood sediments." What is left is a remarkably uniform soil type consisting of large cobblestones.
"I would bet that there is no other AVA in the country that has that level of consistency of soil," Pogue says. "It's one alluvial fan that has a really consistent topography."
Distinctiveness from Soil to Grape to Glass
Pogue says there are three aspects that make the soil in 'The Rocks' distinct for growing wine grapes. "The soils are chemically distinct because they are basalt derived; they are texturally distinct because it's incredibly coarse and well-drained which forces deeper roots; and they are thermally distinct, which may be as important as any of them."
In terms of the latter, Pogue says that the rocks absorb and radiate heat during the day, warming nearby grape clusters during peak hours. "Each grape is like a little bag of water," he says. "I found that if the clusters were within a couple of feet of those rocks, they would heat up a few degrees centigrade above what the clusters would be if they were sitting over grass." Pogue also notes that the rocks facilitate the transfer of heat to deeper layers in the soil and that warmer soils in the root zone invigorate the vine and encourage ripening.
Robertson says the effects are easily seen in the vineyard. "Veraison takes place early in 'The Rocks'," he says. "At SJR (Robertson's vineyard) this transmits to physiological and phenolic ripeness and an early harvest."
Perhaps most importantly though, these differences show up in the resulting wines. Pogue – whose interest in the connection between geology and viticulture extends into the glass – told of recently tasting a flight of Syrahs. "There were four Rocks wines out of the twenty-two," he says. "I nailed the four of them as from 'The Rocks' blind." Indeed, anyone who has tasted wines from this region cannot mistake the area's distinctive earth and mineral aromas as well as flavors.
The Process
Robertson's interest in 'The Rocks' began when he purchased a vineyard in the area in 2009. This vineyard, named SJR after the initials of his son, is being used to produce a single estate wine, the first of which was released last year for Robertson's Delmas Syrah.
Robertson says, "It became super clear to me that, of everything that I knew about wine growing regions, this region had something that no other wine region that I was aware of had, and that was a consistent geology that produced a product that was distinguishable."
Robertson and Pogue worked on the application along with a small, supportive group of well-respected growers/producers from the region for nearly two years before recently submitting it to the TTB. "It was our goal from the onset to be inclusive," Robertson says of their approach. "We took the time to gather up people's thoughts; critically from within, but also from outside the region. We didn't rush. We were very sensitive to make sure everybody had time to provide their input and to be as active within the discovery process as desired."
Among the many people Robertson and Pogue talked with was, of course, Cayuse's Christophe Baron. Robertson says of Baron, "He was very careful - which he should have been - and he asked all the right questions about motivation and why we were doing this."
Robertson says that his answer to these questions were as follows, "The most meaningful thing you can do for the benefit of all is to shine a qualitative light on this very unique geography, the wine grapes that are grown on it, and the people who are making wine off it."
While creating a sub-appellation of 'The Rocks' has long been discussed – and truly was inevitable given the uniqueness of the soils and resulting wines – there has been concern over the years about what effect a sub-appellation might have on the Walla Walla Valley brand, particularly with 'The Rocks' located entirely on the Oregon side of the valley – to date Washington has owned the Walla Walla Valley brand.
"You have very passionate, wonderful people with different points of view about what should be done in the Walla Walla Valley to accomplish recognition outside the Northwest," Robertson says of the discussions that he's had. He says that 'The Rocks' are and always will be an integral part of the valley and its story. Importantly, 'The Rocks' provide a sense of place that consumers seeking ultra-premium, distinctive wines are very interested in understanding. 'The Rocks of Milton-Freewater' is a byproduct of the Walla Walla Valley. It expands the conversation and provides deeper context to what is unique about the Walla Walla Valley."
The AVA & Fine Print
The proposed appellation would be 3,767 acres or 4.9 square miles. It currently has 250 acres of vineyards planted and four wineries. It would be located just northwest of Milton-Freewater and is shaped somewhat like a tadpole with a shortened tail facing west (that tadpoles grow into frogs only adds to the necessity of this analogy). Unlike most appellations in the country, the area was defined almost solely based on its soil type.
"What was driving the AVA boundary was trying to include as much cobbly ground as possible," Pogue says. Pogue used soil maps and then corresponded these maps to various boundaries to create the proposed AVA. Once he had done so, he checked his work.
"I actually drove the whole area to visually inspect to make sure that the ground had cobbles visible on the surface, and that all that ground was in the AVA," Pogue says. In the end, he says,"96% of ground within the boundaries has soils that belong to the Freewater Series," - the soil series type found within 'The Rocks of Milton-Freewater'.
The location of 'The Rocks' on the Oregon side of the Walla Walla Valley AVA creates some nuances for wineries looking to use the appellation designation on their front labels. Regulations require that a wine has to be 'fully finished' within the state in which the AVA is located in order to use it on the front label. For this reason, licensed Washington wineries would not be able designate their wines as 'The Rocks of Milton-Freewater' on their front label unless their production facilities were in Oregon and/or they were also licensed in Oregon. Currently, the only wineries using 'Rocks' fruit that would appear to meet this requirement are Cayuse, Otis Kenyon, Watermill and Zerba.
Despite this limitation, Robertson believes that creation of 'The Rocks of Milton-Freewater' AVA is important, both personally and for the area. "My pitch to myself was, okay, you're 60 years of age," Robertson says. "In your life, how many times have you stumbled on something that was so obvious and that no one has yet done? What an opportunity.
Robertson believes that the new AVA will have a profoundly positive effect on the Walla Walla Valley in general and Milton-Freewater in particular. This would be the first sub-AVA in Walla Walla Valley. He says, "I have never been involved in an endeavor that is this important; to work with growers and producers to help create something truly unique and that will positively effect a whole bunch of people as well as supporting the brand of Walla Walla Valley."
A decision on the AVA application is expected in approximately one year.
Pictures courtesy of Steve Robertson and Kevin Pogue. Recently reviewed wines using a majority of fruit from vineyards in the proposed AVA include the 2009 Cayuse Vineyards an No Girls releases, 2010 Reynvaan Family Vineyards releases (with the exception of the Foothills Reserve), 2010 Proper Wines Syrah, 2010 Delmas Syrah, and 2010 Sleight of Hand Funkadelic Syrah.
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You can put Washington state on the label and The Rocks M-F AVA (or say Willamette Valley as another example) if not less than 75% of the fruit comes from the AVA and is produced/finished in the same or adjacent/contiguous state.
At least, that is how I (and other WA wineries I know that have made wine from Oregon fruit and OR wineries that have made wine from WA fruit) interpret the regs.
- AnonymousFebruary 19, 2013 at 8:55 AM
I'm all for "The Rocks" becoming its own AVA. I really don't care for syrahs from the area, but I do appreciate the uniqueness and distinctive character of the wines. A "Walla Walla Valley Syrah" can mean so many things, but you certainly know one from "The Rocks" when you come across it. This would be a great benefit to not only the producers using grapes from the region, but for consumers as well.ReplyDelete
Fausse Piste and Domaine Serene are a couple of other OR wineries making Syrah grown in the Rocks.ReplyDelete
This article states "Currently, the only wineries using 'Rocks' fruit that would appear to meet this requirement are Cayuse, Otis Kenyon, Watermill and Zerba" Certainly not. They may be the players behind the new AVA establishment but they are not the only wineries. Don Carlo Vineyard also is an Oregon winery using "rocks" fruit in this area.ReplyDelete
Lori, my apologies for missing your winery and thank you for the correction!ReplyDelete
I should add that, to my knowledge, the wineries I listed have not been the drivers of the establishment of the AVA. Rather they were the ones I believed met the requirements as I understand them.ReplyDelete
I'm not sure at all how it'd benefit the consumer, hell, most folks outside of WA barely know what Columbia Valley is...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 25, 2013 at 7:54 PM
Great write up Sean. I completely agree on the almost inevitability of The Rocks AVA. When the soils speak so uniquely through the wines it seems appropriate to define that in some way, more so for the future than the present (given that the existing 250 vineyard acres will certainly expand). Also, the Rocks reference was already being used without a formal AVA so this was most likely necessary to "reserve" the name before another region in the country decided to make use of it. It certainly sounds like Steve and Kevin did this the right way, as inclusive as possible while remaining true to the distinctive characteristics that make the wines unique.ReplyDelete
As an aside, living in far away Tennessee, I get to do some experiments with local wine professionals. Whenever someone tries a Rocks wine for the first time, there's an almost universal reaction of compulsive sniffing, deep inhaling, repetitive swishing and savoring of the finish. It's clear that something new just registered in their palate library (as it did with me when I tried my first Rocks wine).
- AnonymousFebruary 28, 2013 at 9:42 PM
Great article about what is happening in my old home town of Milton-Freewater and its further use of the rocks brought to the orchards and vineyards by the Walla Walla River that irrigates this entire area as the Blue Mountains Thaw and collect the rain clouds as they come from the west. We used to deal with green pea vines being hauled to and fro and I like what I am reading about your efforts to get your own AVA for this unique part of the Walla Walla Valley and the new grape vines that are taking over. Keep working on this , MikeReplyDelete
- Karen ThorntonNovember 20, 2013 at 12:38 PM
As the AVA program manager for TTB, I felt the need to respond to the comment submitted by Micha Nasarow. In order to use an AVA name, 85 percent of the grapes must come from the AVA AND the wine must be fully finished within the State of the AVA. It cannot be produced in an adjacent State and still bear the AVA name.ReplyDelete
You are correct that to use a State appellation (such as "Washington" or "Oregon"), you only need 75 percent of the grapes to have come from the State, and the wine may be fully finished in an adjacent State.
However, because the proposed The Rocks of Milton-Freewater AVA is located entirely in Oregon, you cannot claim that name if the wine is fully finished in Washington. (You could, however, claim Walla Walla Valley or Columbia Valley, since those AVAs encompass The Rocks of Mitlon-Freewater AND straddle the Washington/Oregon line.) You also could NOT claim "Washington" as an appellation in conjunction with this particular AVA name, because if you meet the 75 percent requirement for using "Washington," you cannot mathematically also meet the 85 percent requirement for using "The Rocks of Milton-Freewater."
Karen, thanks for the comment and detail. Much appreciated!ReplyDelete
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A tradition in local sports each year is the Yreka Miners Invitational Basketball Tournament. The 58th edition was recently held on Nov. 29, 30 and Dec. 1.
The tournament was a great way to kick-off both the girls and boys basketball seasons at Yreka High. A number of schools from out of the area participated. This included the school I used to cover in Crescent City, Del Norte, to schools in Oregon including Brookings-Harbor on the coast, St. Mary's of Medford and Ashland. Locally, the Weed girls team and both the Mount Shasta boys and girls squads took part.
Many of these schools have been coming to the tournament for a number of years and it has become a tradition for a fair number of these schools.
For the fourth year the tournament coordinator was Sheri Young.
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"I love doing this for the kids," Young told me. To Young, sports is a positive outlet for local youth and is glad to do her part to help out.
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Young enjoys watching the local schools getting to compete with schools they may not normally see often and the high level of competition on display. Young said that it's also fun to help keep score at the basketball game and said she loves doing her part to help out. When asked how long she hopes to volunteer, She laughed and said, "As long as they let me do it I'll do it."
I commend folks like Young who take the time to volunteer to make where they live a better place. There are a number of people in Siskiyou County who donate countless hours to work with kids in sports. They, like Young understand the tremendous benefits of having sports available for kids.
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While I briefly played in high school, I realized pretty darn quick while I was a decent player as a kid it was best to cheer my friends on from the stands. But I realized I still loved sports. And now I get to write about sports for a living. Not a bad job at all, if you ask me.
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Father, Your Word says that Jesus has been given all authority over heaven and earth. It also says that what I bind on earth is bound in the heavenlies. I stand right now in the authority of Jesus, and I bind the spirit of deception that has captured the minds of the
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Manage the symptoms or go after the root cause? In a way, those are the choices available to deal with climate change. If the task of weaning ourselves off fossil fuels (and reining in deforestation) is too unappealing, a potentially more palatable alternative is geoengineering—intentionally manipulating the climate system. With the large-scale removal of CO2 from the atmosphere currently beyond our grasp, shading the planet with reflective aerosols might be the most effective tool in our kit.
That's no free lunch, of course. Some aerosols have direct, negative effects on human health, and a hiccup in the system would induce drastic climatic changes. Aerosols cover up the warming effect of greenhouse gases, but they don't stay in the atmosphere very long. Stop replenishing the aerosols and the planet could very quickly feel the full force of that "hidden" warming. The vulnerability of such a system to international disagreements, war, and even terrorist attacks is obvious.
If all this makes you a little nervous about the idea, you're not alone. Geoengineering research has been controversial. A perspective in Nature Climate Change describes an effort to engage the public to understand common concerns ahead of one such research project in the UK—the Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering (SPICE) project.
The SPICE design would involve a pipe running 20 kilometers up to helium blimps that would hold the release nozzles for injecting aerosols into the stratosphere. The project team planned to build a prototype that would extend just one kilometer up into the atmosphere (and pump only water) to work on the engineering challenges of making such a system work in the future.
Before that test got off the ground, the team was asked to get a better handle on how the public would feel about it. To accomplish this, the team organized two-day "workshops" with a sampling of people in three British cities, talking with 32 people in total. At each workshop, guided (but open-ended) discussions allowed researchers to really probe the participants' views. This wasn't about accurately polling the UK; it was about gaining a deeper understanding of different perspectives.
On the first day, discussions focused on the general concept of aerosol geoengineering. Although the participants felt that scientists should be researching such technologies (keeping our options open), there was a lot of discomfort that geoengineering would only put off the need to reduce greenhouse gases.
Interestingly, some of the hesitation to engage in geoengineering came from its perceived unnaturalness. The paper notes, "Stratospheric aerosols in particular were also depicted by some as contributing to a disassociation of humankind from the physical world, with uncertainties and global risks deemed likelier as a result." The planet has a track record we're generally familiar with, whereas unprecedented efforts like this (though our fossil fuel emissions are an experiment of their own) may inspire fear of the unknown. We're all raised on cautionary tales of hubris, so perhaps some even see shades of Icarus' wings in these aerosol-spraying blimps.
Another major theme was the need for international agreement and governance of any geoengineering project. For example, say the modification of the climate system carried out by one nation has negative impacts in another. Would the country running the system be held responsible?
Most doubted international agreement would be easy to achieve. As one person put it, "It's a concern because when they've had these climate change seminars [for example, Kyoto] and groups, nobody ever agrees, and what guarantee would we have that everybody would actually agree over something like this?"
On the second day of the workshops, talk zeroed in on the SPICE test itself. The researchers noticed a real shift here—participants were much more supportive of the prototype trial than they were of actual large-scale geoengineering efforts. As long as the test would be safe for people in the vicinity and wasn't likely to cause environmental harm, they were OK with it going forward.
Mostly, the participants wanted to understand why the researchers designed the test the way they did. What did they expect to learn? Would it really be applicable to a full-size version of the system? And, of course, why spend money on this instead of something else?
As it turns out, the SPICE field test was submarined by patent issues, though the rest of the research project continues. Still, public engagement like this helps plot out smoother sailing for this project and others like it. Geoengineering has the potential to be a publicly sticky issue, so it's wise to understand the reasons for queasiness early on.
One thing the participants wanted was transparency and clear communication throughout the project. Knowing this could ensure that funding and coordination to make that happen is prioritized. The more viewpoints you collect now, the more productive the national conversation can be later. If the big concerns are addressed, you might have a better chance at getting people on the same page to work toward informed decisions.
To avoid a repeat of the public controversies that have exploded over climate science and genetically modified organisms, it will help to understand public reactions before they're splashed across the opinion pages of major newspapers.
Nature Climate Change, 2013. DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE1807 (About DOIs).


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The Bachelor's Chris Harrison: When Juan Pablo Said, "Ay, Victoria," You Knew She Was Toast
We're only on Episode 2, and already one of TheBachelor women was drunk and belligerent.
On the season's first group date, Victoria threw back a few too many and had an epic meltdown that including some choice words for Juan Pablo. After threatening to leave, Victoria ultimately crashed in a hotel room and awoke feeling just a tad embarrassed. For Juan Pablo, it was more than enough to send her packing before even making it to the cocktail party. Host Chris Harrison explains why the stunt was a complete turn-off for our sexy single dad and also shares some behind-the-scenes scoop on this week's one-on-one dates. Plus: Is Lucy for real?!
Ratings: Bachelor premiere hits three-year high
Both one-on-one dates went really well and looked like so much fun!
Chris Harrison: You know who helped us out with the electric run? Jef[Holm]; he was an integral part in setting that up. We went to Park City, Utah, for it and it was so cool. Juan Pablo is an athletically inclined guy, so it was great for him and when [he and Kat] stopped and danced on stage it was a lot of fun. For Clare's date, we turned this field in Los Angeles into the winter wonderland. Juan Pablo actually went out earlier with Camila because she hadn't really ever been around snow before, so they went ice skating and played in the snow and then he went back for the date.
Is Lucy for real? The girl is cuckoo.
Harrison: The thing about Lucy is that a lot of times you think they're putting on airs or it's an act, but I promise you that's 100 percent her. At some point, we said, "You need to put clothes on!" She's always naked, she never wears shoes and she just doesn't have a care in the world.
Does Juan Pablo actually like that though?
Harrison: I think [at first] he was attracted to that and she's stunningly beautiful, but then everything runs through this Camila family filter and you realize, wait a minute, is this going to be Camila's stepmom? No, I'm not sure that's going to work. He'll have to see more character, depth and maturity from her and she got a rose, but you'll see he's going to be like, we're having a good time, but there has to be more depth.
TheBachelor's Chris Harrison: We've never had anybody get to second base on Night 1!
Victoria was the first girl to get wasted. What a disaster!
Harrison: He actually told the girls early on Night 1 that this isn't the place to get wasted-drunk and he also doesn't drink a lot. One thing about Juan Pablo you should know is that if he ever says, "Ay" and then a name, that's not good. So when he said, "Ay, Victoria," you knew she was toast. He's not a partier; he's subdued and family-oriented and not the guy who's going to be taking tequila shots.
Andiseemed to stand out on the group date even though she didn't get the rose.
Harrison:Definitely. He's very attracted to strong woman like her andSharleen and he's really taken by intelligent women and the type who push back a little.
There's another Bachelor Sunday special coming up. What can you tell us about it?
Harrison: It's love from The Bachelor with all our couples. Trista andRyan renew their vows, we catch up with J.P. and Ashley and also the other couples who have come from the show. Des and Chris are also on and they're great, they're madly in love and hopefully we'll be doing their wedding. We're on a crazy roll lately!
The Bachelor airs on Mondays at 8/7c on ABC.
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Exterior Air Sealing
A Case Study on Shadowbrook Townhomes in Harding, New Jersey
I find inefficiencies in home performance frustrating. Many can be cured by performing simple tasks. The goal of air sealing is to retain Btu within a building, which translates to reduced energy costs, added comfort, and enhanced durability. Most buildings have cold or warm spots; some have ice dams or drafts; and worse, some have mold and mildew problems. All are common signs that a building is not properly sealed against airflows between the conditioned inside and the outdoors.
Air moves from one side of a building assembly to another based on pathways and pressure differences. Up to 25% of heating-and-cooling Btu can escape through unseen cracks and gaps in a building. Replacing these lost Btu, often through the use of HVAC appliances, costs money.
Common air-sealing procedures for an existing building begin with the attic plane. Penetrations are sealed with rigid air barriers, insulation is added, and proper ventilation is established. Generally the contractor is working within the constraints of a finished home interior. He or she is not gutting walls to the shell, as with a new home, so the techniques are restricted to accessible spaces.
There is a work-around for many homes that removes the constraint of a finished interior. That is to work on the outside of the shell rather than the inside. The attic plane is accessible in either case, as is the band joist if the basement is unfinished. In a re-siding job, we often have the opportunity to address all planes of the structure. We can seal the attic, seal and insulate the walls, and seal and insulate the unfinished basement, too.
A National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) economics paper on the durability of various components of a home found that most siding lasts for the life of the home—which, NAHB notes can be 200 years or more, when the home is properly maintained. Despite the functional durability of siding, several million homes per year are re-sided. It is my contention that if the best practices for air sealing were employed during the re-siding of the home, the energy consumption of that home would drop. Retrofitting several million homes per year in this manner would surely have a major impact on home budgets and would probably have a measurable effect on national energy consumption.
Testing This Hypothesis
In order to test this hypothesis, I wrote a prescriptive path to sealing the outside of a building's shell. I selected a 43-unit townhome project that was taking bids to replace the siding on the entire project. The homeowners' management committee allowed input on the specifications. The committee also allowed me to measure some pre- and post-testing of airflows. Many case studies have been conducted through the Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing (PATH), DOE, HUD, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) on restraint of airflows from the inside of the building, but none were found on exterior air sealing. This test project attempted to replicate the research protocols, although no public funding was secured to gather data on every unit. Eight of the units were pre-tested with a blower door for air loss. In one, the homeowner had generally sealed one of the tested units. All the others were in their original condition, which dated from the late 1970s.
Working closely with the homeowners association and educating them on the benefits of exterior air sealing, our rewrite of the bid specifications included lots of air sealing best practices (see Table 1). There was no increased cost to the homeowners association. After the completion of the project, we asked the contractor what his thoughts were. He said that perhaps a thousand dollars of hard costs may have been spent, but the increase in man-hours for diligence was insignificant compared to the good will he gained from the homeowners association for an unprecedented job.
Proper instruction of the men in the field was essential. Each detail on how to apply caulk was carefully explained and monitored—from the contractor to his supervisors, and from them right down to the field installers. Caulk needs to be injected into the seams of the sheathing, not smeared across the face. Air barrier needs to be caulked at the first course, not just taped at the seams. The sheathing needs to be caulked to the foundation to eliminate perimeter leakage. Cutouts at vents and hose bibs all need careful sealing with caulk and expanding foam before any air barrier is applied. Quality control and verification of proper protocols were implemented during the prep and installation stages of the contract. Chuck Juliano of Juliano Roofing and Siding, located in Chester, New Jersey, assisted in the daily site visits and quality control checks.
Post-testing of the units showed a reduction in air infiltration that ranged from 3% (in the home previously sealed by the owner) to 18%. The average improvement in air infiltration was about 15%.
Initial blower door testing was completed to get a baseline of air leakage. All original wood siding and tar paper was removed, revealing major sources of air infiltration into the buildings. These techniques have translated into dramatic savings for the homeowners in the subsequent years. Anecdotal reports of greater comfort, longer cycle time on the furnaces, and stabilized temperatures all make for more satisfied occupants. Getting a great job from the contractor is generally the homeowner's—or in this case, the association's—main goal. Having test results proves that the air-sealing job was a success.
In the past, siding has had two functions: to shed water, and to make the house look attractive; it has not been installed to save energy. In this case, we used a foam-backed vinyl siding to replace the wood clapboard; adding R-6 to the insulation value of the wall assembly. Though air sealing was the baseline metric, the wall assembly, formerly R-13, garnered a 50% increase in insulation value. This insulation does a fine job of preventing thermal bridging from interior conditioned space to the exterior. (You can conduct a Manual J load analysis to calculate the insulation improvement for your next project.) There was also a noticeable (though not measured) decrease in cycle time on the HVAC equipment, which should extend its service life as well. In short, this exterior air-sealing practice may be the next quantum leap forward in lowering the operating cost of homes, and in preserving energy resources. The combination of added insulation with best-practice air sealing is a proven winner.
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NAHB, "Study on the Life Expectancy of Home Components." February 2007. More information on NAHB can be found at www.nahb.org.
For more information on the product lines for roofing, siding, and insulation material merchant wholesalers, visit the U.S. Census web site at www.census.gov/econ/industry/products/p423330.htm.
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1983: On this date in 1983, The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, was announced.
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Black holes have a fearsome reputation that's only partly justified. The maw of a black hole is indeed a potentially destructive thing, but most matter—including gas stripped from nearby stars—is not destined to end inside the black hole. Instead, a lot of it ends orbiting the black hole, and the energy that's released by the material that is getting swallowed blasts a lot of material back out into space. So, black holes don't simply devour every object that comes near them.
All of this makes a new observation particularly interesting. Astronomers M. Nikołajuk and R. Walter caught a black hole in the act of destroying and consuming part of a large planet or small brown dwarf. This event involved a supermassive black hole located in a relatively nearby galaxy, and emitted a burst of intense X-ray light that fluctuated over a short time span, then faded. The flare and its aftermath behaved as expected if the black hole disrupted an object at least 14 times Jupiter's mass, then consumed about 10 percent of the gas that once was part of the object.
In 2011, astronomers using the INTEGRAL (INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory) gamma ray telescope discovered a strong source of emissions coming from the galaxy NGC 4845. Follow-up observations using INTEGRAL along with other gamma- and X-ray telescopes confirmed the flare was located within the central region of the galaxy, where the supermassive black hole resides.
Typically, as matter falls onto a black hole at the center of a galaxy, it forms an accretion disk, a rotating region of material that heats to very high temperatures. The result is often strong emissions in gamma rays and radio light, with the output fluctuating only slightly.
However, the subsequent observations of NGC 4845 found the emissions fluctuated by a huge amount over a matter of days. After the light emission peaked, they faded over the course of a year, behavior very unusual for a supermassive black hole. The researchers suspected a one-time event, rather than the normal, steady diet of most black holes.
The authors used calculations of energy output and the measured variation of light emissions to work backward to what could have produced the burst. They found a relatively small amount of mass could do the trick, provided it hit the black hole fairly quickly. This mass would be the equivalent to about 10 percent of the mass of either a very large planet or small brown dwarf, anywhere between 14 and 30 times the mass of Jupiter.
(Brown dwarfs are star-like objects with insufficient mass to start hydrogen fusion in their cores. There is sufficient overlap between large planets and small brown dwarfs that it's hard to distinguish between them, but let's say the black hole ate a planet because that's more fun.)
The researchers compared this scenario to other possible explanations for the flare, including the possibility of a small star coming close to the black hole, or a brief window opening in the shroud of gas surrounding the black hole. They concluded the planet or brown dwarf was a more likely result, based on the specific behavior observed.
In the scenario proposed in the new paper, the super-Jupiter drifted close to the supermassive black hole in NGC 4845. The gravitational attraction on the near side of the planet was stronger than on the far side, pulling it out of shape. (This is known as the tidal force, and it is responsible for the twice-daily tides on Earth.) At some point, the internal force of gravity holding the planet together was insufficient to keep the black hole from ripping about 10 percent of the mass off in one burst.
This matter fell onto the black hole, creating a particularly bright but fluctuating accretion disk. It also made a corona-like cloud around the black hole, the first event of its kind ever observed. Some of the disrupted material eventually returned to the planet, while some was eventually swallowed by the black hole. As the planet moved away, there was a gradual fading of the light emissions, consistent with the data.
Such tidal disruptions are rare events, with perhaps one occurring in a million years' time for a given galaxy. However, there are a lot of rogue planets drifting around, unattached to any star, so the authors suggest that planet disruptions might be at least as common as stars being disrupted. With all the supermassive black holes in all the galaxies in the Universe, the chances of seeing another planet-munching black hole are pretty good, if we know what we're looking for.
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2013. DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201220664 (About DOIs).


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A 4th grade reading assignment begat a heated argument with a girl with glasses who I knew was smarter than me but wrong on the issue [so much has changed] of the greatest president; And heated argument begat trip [50 yards] to the Citrus Grove elementary school's oval library; And Citrus Grove library begat some biography which had a picture of Lincoln swinging an ax; And some biography begat an exact memorization of the Gettysburg Address; And exact memorization of the Gettysburg Address begat an abililty to give a largely accurate rendition [Abe might say it didn't stay learnt]; And accurate rendition begat an ability to know someone was reciting the Gettysburg Address once I heard it.
And garage sales with books begat a pilgrimage to the Miami-Dade Public Library's spectacular annual book sale [coming up now]; and annual pilgrimage begat William Safire's Freedom; and Safire begat Garry Wills' Lincoln at Gettysburg; And great buys at book sales begat a desire to never pay retail prices for books I was not reading cover to cover; And my cheapness begat the destruction of local book stores; And said destruction begat guilt; And guilt begat finding Mortimer Adler's classic, How to Read a Book, which legitimized my reading habits; And Adler begat the death of the girl with glasses back in the 4th grade [only untrue begat]; And guilt assuaged begat Amazon; And Amazon begat Thomas Keneally's, Abraham Lincoln; And Keneally begat Ronald C. White's, The Eloquent President. And White begat [only ironic begat] Ken Burn's The Civil War. And Burns begat Netflix streaming. And Netflix streaming begat a most unexpected, but effective, motivational device; comparing my problems to those faced by my ancestral citizenry.
More recently, the movie Lincoln begat Doris Kearns Goodwin's audiobook Team of Rivals; And Goodwin begat David Herbert Donald's Lincoln; And Donald begat a 99 cent ebook, The Complete 7-Volume Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln; And that 99 cent ebook begat another 99 cent ebook, The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant.
Lincoln's farewell address at Springfield, 2/11/1861:
My friends, no one, not in my situation, can appreciate my feeling of sadness at this parting. To this place and the kindness of this people I owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have been born and one is buried.
I now leave, not knowing when or whether ever I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him I can not succeed. With that assistance I can not fail.
Trusting in Him who can go with me and remain with you and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell.


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